Robinson Helicopter R22 ALPHA
N8541E is a Robinson Helicopter R22 ALPHA, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1984. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Flying Services INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2003 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 5, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R22 ALPHA · all R22 ALPHAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 0442
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- ABB8B4 (octal 52734264)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 30, 2003
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 5, 1984
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00301014
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying Services INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1201 Orange St Ste 600
Wilmington, DE 19899-0511
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8541E, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Flying Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 30, 2003, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 5, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0442 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8541E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7FC (serial 7FC-347, cancelled May 20, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N8541E: Accident on May 27, 1995 at Fairfield, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R-22A · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain control of the helicopter. The student's lack of experience in the type of operation (solo flight) was a related factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC95LA126 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data